Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

A big congratulations to Dr. Ethan Abercrombie on his PhD defense! 🎉

A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳 #ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

A big congratulations to Dr. Anna Wassel on her PhD defense! 🎉

Shout-out to Hans Reijnen for beautiful footage of the @gdfcf.bsky.social, and the EduMedia department @w-u-r.bsky.social who did an amazing job creating a virtual tropical soil environment! Feel free to use to inspire your students! #ecology #roots #tropicalforest #costarica #tdf

Congratulations to Sarah Swiston for winning the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Poster Award at #Evol2025 for her poster "EMPIRE: The ellipse model for phylogenetic inference of range evolution"

A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱 #ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter

Please share! JOIN THE LAB! We are looking to recruit a motivated reserach technician to assist with field research on restoration and lidar data collection in #longleaf pine at the beautiful @thejonesctr.bsky.social Apps due July 6 jonesctr.org/wp-content/u...

Trilobite fossil - Mount Stephen Fossil Beds - The Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, Canada

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Check out this excellent Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) podcast interview with Lyle Usdin—a recent Environmental Biology graduate @washu.bsky.social & member of our research team—featuring his reflections on the OTS African Ecology & Conservation course 🐘 open.spotify.com/episode/3o50...

A big thanks to the organizers, group leaders, and participants of the second-annual Amphibian & Reptile Count for a great field experience at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🦎 🐍 📸 credit: Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET) / Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Happy to be back at La Selva for an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) institutional-representative workshop. My last visit was over 20 years ago as a graduate student in the OTS fundamentals course (Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach)🌴 📸 credit: Kyle Harms

Just sharing an idea for a lab meeting. Last week I asked everyone to select and present a paper from PLOS '10 simple rules' series. There are 100s of topics available. We discussed rules for good leadership, getting grants, data handling etc. It worked quite well! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Want to understand grasslands? Look at the bigger picture Great writeup of @chriscatano.bsky.social's recent paper showing how arrival rates of individuals and species alter community assembly locally, influencing diversity patterns over time and across scales natsci.msu.edu/news/2025-05...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

A big thanks to Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social for hosting me for a seminar visit at UCR and a great day visiting field sites at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics Plot (San Jacinto Mountains) and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (Colorado Desert) ⛰️ 🌳 🌵

I'm excited to share a new paper, led by Marta Jarzyna and Leo Ohyama, on regional species pools-- a fundamental concept in ecology and biogeography that is poorly defined and understood, but which is essential for understanding and protecting biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes! Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests! Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...

After 6 long years, lots of ups and downs, and being far from family, I’m defending my PhD thesis on May 6 at 12:00pm CT - just 16 days away! Still a bit to go, but wanted to share. De Puerto Tejada y Cali para el mundo.

Interested in integrating art and biology at the university level? Feel free to join this free online symposium!

"During a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher," writes Elizabeth Gilbert of Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Congrats to David Henderson & the Madidi Metabolomics Project team on this new paper exploring the chemical ecology of tropical tree communities 🌴 in the Andes ⛰️ @mobotgarden.bsky.social @washu.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social #UMSL 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Excited to be part of this #ForestGEO collaboration—led by Thorsten Wiegand & Xugao Wang—exploring patterns, causes, and consequences of spatial aggregation in common and rare tree species across temperate and tropical forests. 🌳 🌴 🌐 #forestecology #TysonResearchCenter doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Interested in life as a forest ecologist, the charismatic pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba), community assembly, or all of the above? Check out Anna Wassel’s interview on her PhD research @washu.bsky.social in the latest In Defense of Plants podcast! 🌱 www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...

Join the Missouri Botanical Garden! If you are interested in conservation, restoration, or plant systematics in Latin America, this is a great opportunity to work at an institution driven by a passion for describing and conserving plants. One more week to apply! jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...

Meet Isaac Kearney, the six-year-old Liverpool fan ‘just living his best life’ #liverpoolfc #YNWA www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...

Alright so to brighten the mood... Who's ready for another iteration of 28 Days, 28 Black Plant Scientists/Botanists? 💪🏾🌱 For those that want more background here's a link from last yr. While I search through names myself, I'm happy to hear any nominations via DM/email! plantae.org/2024-black-h...

Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺 👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms go.bsky.app/L37W5uH Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

Everyone, plz share with your stellar undergrads! The UDE program (Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution) pairs students from diverse backgrounds with mentors to attend the Evolution meeting each year. Encourage your undergrads to apply!

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Ecology! Applications are open for the #TysonResearchCenter Undergraduate Fellows Program at WashU’s field station, including opportunities to join our summer forest #biodiversity & #fireecology team 🌳 🔥 Applications due Feb. 15 Reposts appreciated!

The first chapter of my dissertation is finally out. Thanks to all my co-authors and mentors. Gustavo Londoño, Martha Muñoz (@marthamunoz.bsky.social ), Don Miles (@lizardprof.bsky.social) and Rosario Castañeda doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/5).

Looking for a place to conduct your research? 100 years of place-based data & information, fellowships to help support researchers & grad students, fully funded summer camp for your kids (if you have 'em). Apply today! We are actively recruiting new research teams. Join our incredible community.

Congrats to Anna Wassel on this new paper exploring how a locally dominant and regionally iconic temperate forest tree (pawpaw) alters understory plant biodiversity and community assembly 🌱 Led by the Pawpaw Patrol Team in the #TysonResearchCenter #ForestGEO Plot 🌳 (1/2) doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Excited to share our new paper - plant metabolomics provide an additional trait dimension in community assembly to better understand how niche selection changes along environmental gradients. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A collaborative project led by @hennhouse.bsky.social

The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is seeking a Scientist to join our Latin America Program! The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged. Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...

Packing only the essentials for a conference in #Liverpool

#InternationalMountainDay Mountains ⛰️ can provide insights on how climatic & edaphic gradients affect tree migrations & temperate-boreal forest biome transitions as climate changes. Check out our recent paper in Ecological Monographs to see how 😀🧪🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems apply.interfolio.com/158908 Deadline: January 6, 2025

Excited to share results from the Madidi Metabolomics Project at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social #BES2024 conference in #Liverpool! Stop by to check out our team’s poster in the Community Ecology session on Wednesday (Dec. 11) from 6:00-7:30 pm.

Happy to share a new paper—led by Justin Baldwin—exploring how avian dispersal ability shapes species-area relationships on islands worldwide 🐦‍⬛ 🏝️ 🌐 (1/2) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a difference an hour makes ✨

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Another mini-pitch has arrived! 🙌 Proud to team up with American Family Insurance and the US Soccer Foundation to finish our sixth mini-pitch at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Community Center in East St. Louis, IL. Thanks to all the players, community coaches and JJK herself for joining us.